Poor America
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It's an election year in the richest country in the world, but tent cities for the homeless are springing up around the nation. Panorama finds out what it means to be poor in America.
With one and a half million American children now homeless, reporter Hilary Andersson meets the school pupils who go hungry in the richest country on Earth.
From those living in the storm drains under Las Vegas to the tent cities now springing up around the United States, Panorama finds out how the poor are surviving in America and asks whatever happened to Barack Obama's vision for the country.
Obama wasn't to blame for the financial crisis. That was the bankers' and borrowers' fault.
Capitalism is a system designed to fail...where the wealthy CAPITALIZE on the poor and the working class and with this current disaster of a government we have...it is worse than ever and about to get far worse than most of you realize!
This was so sad how these people were treated
How could the USA be the richest country in the world when it owes money? How could the citizens be the richest when they too owe money? When you're poor it means you have very little to no money. When you actually owe money you are beyond poor you are a financial slave. Therefore the USA is by far the poorest country in the world hands down and it's citizens are living in nothing more than modern day slavery. The average farmer anywhere in the world is filthy rich compared to most Americans, they own their own land and they don't owe any money. The Jews who own and run the USA will make virtually all Americans slaves just give them a little more time to do it.....David
FYI the united states is not the richest country in the world, we are #9.
I am sorry I read the comment section. For those of you from other countries Australia and Canada, they are not perfect as well. Not all Americans are lazy, fat, or do not understand our political system. When there are 5 lobbyist for each congressman there is not much the average citizen can do about things. The rich control the government. And also check your facts, America is not the biggest consumer, China is. I am sorry to read all the hate spewed in the comment section. For those of you who had nasty things to say, grow up.
THey still didn't say whos the director and actors are, how are I soppose to cite this thing
The negative income tax - which provides money directly to the poor -- and cuts out the middleman (those dozens of anti-poverty programs which are so laden with rules and fraught with financial abuse and mismanagement) answers the question. It would cost taxpayers so much less and it would help the poor so much more.
A shame for USA to help far away countries,foreigners , sometime enemies too ( jihadists,Talibans...) and not it's own citizens !!!!!!!!!!! Shame ,only a shame
The wheel of fortune continues to turn - just slowly. These sad pictures are like the first darkening clouds before a storm. This is the future. Like the tent-dwellers who lost their jobs and had no savings aside, the USA, has partied to the last minute and after all parties, there is a big cleanup to be done. Worse, the bill needs to be paid.
But, by who?
Lady Liberty works like a trojan horse that diverted the promise of America from self-contained pioneer communities to a land where selfishness and thirst for profit and fame distorted Truth.
Google Lady Liberty and realize what it really stands for. Instead of Trust in God and the resolve to fulfill his Will on Earth, liberty has made people embrace willful desires of the flesh instead. Thus sickness due to gluttony such as diabetes and heart ailments are common. Sex and violence abound, which are symptoms of a spoiled generation blindly removing the issue of mortality and short sighted momentary satisfaction.
Just where do people really think Lady Liberty would lead them?
Using the French Revolution as example, she made selfish desires prevail and completely removed God from the picture. Then the people who demanded equality by the power of guillotine, found unity in the military pursuit of Napoleon who mistake material enrichment by war and pillage for change and progress. Instead of celebrating Life, democracy was overruled by death and destruction.
When you're poor it doesn't matter your education, trade skills, job skills, or any other type of skill one may have acquired during ones stay in this state of existence, the color of your skin, or what you had for breakfast the other day. No one cares, and nobody helps the poor with their plight.
It's all about exploiting the poor, even the ones who've worked hard their whole lives, who have never been on any type of welfare, whom continue shoulder their burdens on their own. I've lived my whole life in this state, I would know.
If you can't come up with and alternative lifestyle you won't fall into the camp that have the flat screen TVs, computers, or any other type of luxury items, you will be out on the street, or under them. Oh, but they will throw it out there that some of the poor have such items, as if they handed them away for free!
Quite a lot of these people had babies BEFORE they got poor
Reliable, effective contraception has existed since 1964. The 1% agreed to
support the culture wars of the religious right in exchange for their vote into power. Thus we have experienced the decline of effective reproduction education in public schools and increasing pressure on Planned Parenthood clinics. Contraception should be free and freely available for all human beings, especially in poor communities. Overpopulation of the human species now threatens all life on planet Earth.
"obama promised change, where is it?" jesus. i blame americans
themselves for developing a culture where they don't even understand
their own government or simple physical realities of life. they want
politicians and corporations to take care of the people like
children (so they can remain in a childlike state and not take any
responsibility themselves) and not simply be administrators representing
the will of the
people, as they are supposed to be in a democracy. and they have no clue
as to the relationship of resources to quality of life. at election
time you always hear about job creation as the babies keep getting made
and people from other countries come in to do jobs americans are to
stuck up to do. how can such backwards math be so widely excepted as
reasonable? we should be making babies to fill jobs not the other way
around. but that's no surprise since americans think all they have comes
from hardwork and not the fact that they stole ALL the resources that
made the country powerful. as if sweat could be traded at the bank for
currency. ridiculous. those looted resources are running out and
increasingly shared with new power in countries like china and india.
and of course those people learned everything they know about being
clueless from america. and the people are all flabbergasted.
While there is more than enough blame to go around. The sad truth is that it will get worse when the economy comes to a total crash.
detroit stand up !!! i'll going to america 2015
This is the workings of corporatism threw the demopublic party.
USA pop. is 311 million. The homeless pop. is around 750 thousand, total. The claim that 1.5 million children are homeless in the USA is absurd.
This IS Obama's vision for our country!!!!!
it seems that someone is trying to hide this video why??
Growing up in the US I have seen people turn blue at the mere mention of the S- word. But when I go and research socialist countries, I find that financially, they are doing far better than the US. Canada, Norway, Austraila. They all have high standards of living, some massive collective savings systems that are not threatened at all by current economic problems, healthcare, housing... Im just learning that non socialist countries dont seem to be having the same finacial problems we do. They have different systems to, not all the same, with different political structures. They even have free markets and people can own a bussiness themselves, so its not like the government owns everything, just certain critical and basic needs services. Also the people seem happy, not oppressed, are not being aressted in the middle of the night, have a lot of social mobilty (you can actually get ahead financially) they have a right to free speech, all the things that socialism, as I have been taught all my life to be well, isnt.
I could be missing something, I would love to hear from those of you who live a socialist (or partly socialist) country. What is it like to live that way? Are you free? Can you grow personaly and financialy? can you speak your minds? Do you live in poverty? How do I immigrate?
I think islam is the solution and will be the solution to all man kind, it is the only religion was mention to be the religion of God, unfortunetly those who assiciated God with jesus and lie that He is God son will be punish from here and after this world and this, is the sign also that, in islam interest is prohebited and those who will use it will be punish ,if you take interest or get interest is like you are fighting with God now this a simple example that America and all its people will be ruin for getting or using interest will be ruin you dont need to blame Obama before Obama, was bush you wont fight islam, you burn holly quran without getting the wrath of Allah to all nations, this is only a starting, Allah can give and take and this is unjustice of standing with jews towards palastine.american people are very nice human
unfortunetly devil from the pro-jews will bring all the calamity on earth.
I invite you to be Muslims the true religion Of Allah.
you have seein what represent your church pedophiliies from so call men of God are all rapes under the cross weak up people islam is your solution
they may dislike islam is because it tell them the truth. those who will associated God with jesus will go to hell and hell start from here.
jesus is a messenger of al mighty Allah
To whom much is given much is required.Stop watching TV and become part of the solution!!!
The issues in this documentary speak also of another problem which is that of having no community. Where are their friends? Their families? Their churches? Neighbors? People who may not have much but share what they have with each other?